I admit that I have been a fierce opponent of the direction DC seemed to be heading with Zack Snyder, but felt a bit of hope that DC and WB were moving away from that darkness with the slow move away from Snyder controlling the direction of the movies.The other night, I got to see The Conjuring 2.

Yes, that sentence belongs there. Why? Because The Conjuring 2 was directed by James Wan. The same James Wan who has previously been announced as the director for DC’s stand-alone Aquaman film.

I’m not sure how I’m feeling since I realized that fact.

I took a brief look at his filmography on IMDB, and, aside from Furious 7, he has directed a bunch of horror movies.

So, we have a director who has, up until this point, been known for moody-dark-scary films.

Okay, I thought, maybe he’s simply been a bit pigeon-holed as a director up until now. Maybe he’s just been biding his time, waiting for his really big opportunity, and he’s really going to do a bang-up job on Aquaman, who has arguably been the red-headed-step-child of the DC universe.

Then you look at this, the official first look at Jason Mamoa as Aquaman, released by Zack Snyder back in February, shortly before the BvS debacle:

Sooooo…. dark, moody, and brooding it is. Apparently on the same scale as Batman vs Superman.

Because, you know: that plays so well.

Obviously, this choice was made back when Zack Snyder was still driving the DC movie bus.